The Arizona Fall League often attracts some of the best talent in minor league baseball. This year, the league will showcase three of MLB.com’s top 10 prospects, but none of them will be from the White Sox’s esteemed farm system. In fact, you’ll notice the distinct absence of anyone listed among the Sox’s MLB Pipeline top 30 prospects, or our top 20 group from after the Jose Quintana trade. But in a system as deep as this one, that doesn’t mean there’s no one interesting spending October in Glendale.

Save for current major leaguers Jace Fry and Dylan Covey, arguably the most intriguing name who will play for the Glendale Desert Dogs is catcher Seby Zavala, whose appeal and rise in prospect status could be adequately summed up with, “he’s a catcher who is hitting.”

“Funny how that works,” quipped White Sox catching coordinator John Orton, on the rapid increase in interest in the former 12th-round pick, who’s in his third year in...